Starting at 4:00pm on Wednesday, Mar 18 until approximately 5pm we will be upgrading the main departmental network connection to the University backbone as well as doing the usual Wednesday server updates. We expect that the networking should be out for at most a half-hour.
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the web, share, ptr, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied on Wednesday afternoon, March 18, 2015 which will require rebooting. Since some updates will be applied while the servers are still up there may be some temporary issues with some software. We hope that any such issues will be minor and by doing most of the upgrading before bringing systems down the shorter downtime will be worth the potential minor problems. Please restart any programs if you observe problems during the upgrades (and please let us know at requests@math.toronto.edu, so we can investigate). We expect the systems to be back up by 5:00pm.
